Re: OT: Prayer, ritual and magic // was conlang website

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> The notion of damnation saddens me terribly.  Forever--unforgiven?  No
> more second chances?
It saddens God even more, I should think.

But forgiveness is tied to time, and souls in Hell and Heaven have no
more time: they have entered into eternity, which is being outside
time, not being endlessly in time.

> This is mainly a Catholic notion, correct?
Yes, if you include Orthodoxy as well.  The unorthodoxy of Purgatory was
a point of the Protestant Reformation, because the Bible (not surprisingly)
makes no mention of it.  The basis for the doctrine is the logical consequence
of other Biblically founded doctrines.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
        --Douglas Hofstadter